Studies on Religious Complex of Sufism and Saint Veneration from an Interdisciplinary Approach Involving Anthropologists, Historians and Students of Islamic Thought

我们以苏菲主义和圣人崇拜的宗教情结为研究对象，这两个因素在穆斯林世界都是广为人知、信奉和实践的。综合以往人类学、历史学和伊斯兰思想的大量研究成果，我们试图赋予它们一个新的一般理论框架，可以一致地应用于这些宗教信仰和仪式的不同形式。1.我们在三年内举行了14次学习会议，其中包括三年两次的研讨会。2.我们的成员积极参加了由日本中东研究协会(James)在第19届国际宗教史协会世界大会(IAHR 2005)上举办的小组讨论。3.在2006年6月于约旦安曼举行的第二届世界中东研究大会(WOCMES 2)上，我们组织了两个专题小组，题为“苏菲派和圣徒的继承逻辑”。4.我们的成果以特刊形式发表在三种学术期刊上，即《索菲亚亚洲研究杂志》22(2004)、《日本中东研究协会年鉴》21(2)(2006)和《东方：日本近东研究学会报告》42(2007)。AKAHORI等人，东京：东京大学出版社，2005)，也是我们努力的成果。从2007年开始，我们的联合研究将由NIHU(国家人文研究所)项目的两个伊斯兰地区研究小组接替。一个是由TONAGA领导的京都大学伊斯兰地区研究中心第四研究组，另一个是以AKAHORI为首的索菲亚大学索菲亚伊斯兰地区研究第三研究组。

We took up as the subject of our research the religious complex of Sufism and saint veneration, both of which factors have been widely known, believed in, and practiced in the Muslim world. Synthesizing numerous results of past research endeavors in anthropology, history and Islamic thought, we sought to endow them with a new framework of general theories, that could be consistently applied to diverse forms of these religious faith and ritual.1.We held 14 study meetings in three years, including two-day seminars held thrice yearly.2.Our members participated actively in the panel organized by the Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES) at the 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR 2005, Tokyo).3.We organized two panels entitled "The Logic of Succession around Sufis and Saints" at the 2nd World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES 2) held in Amman, Jordan in June, 2006.4.We published our achievements as special issues in three academic journals, namely The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies 22 (2004), Annals of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies 21 (2)(2006) and Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 42 (2007).5.The publication, Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam (ed. by AKAHORI et al., Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press, 2005), is also a fruit of our efforts.From 2007 our joint research is to be succeeded by two research groups of the NIHU (National Institute for the Humanities) Program for the Islamic Area Studies. One is research unit 4 of the Center for the Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University headed by TONAGA, and the other is research group 3 of the Sophia Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University, headed by AKAHORI.